software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _call_apport_recoverable_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

Bug #1098871 reported by Sasa Paporovic
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have tried to remove plymouth (for reinstalling purposes).

After clicking to remove a error popup of Software-Center itself comes up with the message(translated from german to english):
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"
The following packages have not fullfiled dependences:

libunity-webapps0: Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8) aber 2.34.3-1ubuntu1 should be installed
                   Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0) aber 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 should be installed
                   Depends: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9) aber 3.7.15.1-1 should be installed
                   Depends: libwnck-3-0 (>= 2.91.6) aber 3.4.4-0ubuntu2 should be installed
openssh-client: ssh:
"
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Apport react also on this.

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Steps to reproduce:

1.Start Software-Center
2.Search for plymouth
3.Try to remove plymouth
4.See the error described above comes up also with a additional reaction of apport

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: software-center 5.5.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.3-generic 3.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 12 14:02:21 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-01 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130101)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no username)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _call_apport_recoverable_error(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

Revision history for this message
Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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